Molly Hand is Entrepreneur in Residence and Lecturer in the Department of English at Florida State University. Her scholarly work appears in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme; Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama, edited by Michelle Dowd and Natasha Korda (2011); and The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, edited by Trish Henley and Gary Taylor (2012). She is currently at work on a book-length study of animal familiars in early modern English literature.

Brian Massumi is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He specializes in the philosophy of experience, art and media theory, and political philosophy. His most recent books include Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception (2015), Politics of Affect (2015), and What Animals Teach Us About Politics (2014). He is co-author with Erin Manning of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (2014). Also with Erin Manning and the SenseLab collective, he participates in the collective exploration of new ways of bringing philosophical and artistic practices into collaborative interaction.